"Masters Of The Air" - from the Band of Brothers team

[Redwolf]

Band of Brothers in the air, over Germany in Bombers:

https://www.empireonline.com/tv/news/masters-of-the-air-austin-butler-stars-in-steven-spielberg-produced-war-series-coming-to-apple/

[al_infierno]

Sounds cool!    

[SirAndrewD]

Happy to see this.  My grandfather flew a B-17 in the great World War Two.

[Sir Slash]

I'm in! 

[GDS_Starfury]

there's a good chance Windy flew yo momma in WW2.

[GDS_Starfury]

and Bob definitely hit in during the Boer War.

[Gusington]

*ahem*

'Bawb'

[Sir Slash]

Maybe YOUR Momma flew Air Windy in WWII but MY Momma was home baking, 'V For Victory' cookies and sky-watching for Nazi bombers, at the same time. 

[Destraex]

Finally after many years a Masters of the Air Trailer is out. Fingers crossed, looks ok, but not terribly impressed by the trailer in comparison to something like Memphis Belle.
Just looking at the trailer the story for masters of the air looks like a hodge podge of random happenings, hope the show runners are masters of stitching a good story together from a tonne of disparate happenings. Please don't go the way of Das Boot 2 and focus on everything but the subject matter most of the time.

P.s. I like that the red tails are shown. They were being requested by bomber groups I believe. Own one of the Tuskeegee airmen movies called red tails on blu ray... although the movie is an action piece with the worst aircraft physics known to man. It's still fun to watch.

[Gusington]

That looks pretty incredible. I would kill for something like that set during the First World War...

[ArizonaTank]

Finally after many years a Masters of the Air Trailer is out. Fingers crossed, looks ok, but not terribly impressed by the trailer in comparison to something like Memphis Belle.
Just looking at the trailer the story for masters of the air looks like a hodge podge of random happenings, hope the show runners are masters of stitching a good story together from a tonne of disparate happenings. Please don't go the way of Das Boot 2 and focus on everything but the subject matter most of the time.

P.s. I like that the red tails are shown. They were being requested by bomber groups I believe. Own one of the Tuskeegee airmen movies called red tails on blu ray... although the movie is an action piece with the worst aircraft physics known to man. It's still fun to watch.

The book was a hodge-podge of stories something like a Cornelius Ryan book; The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far. I would be OK with that format.  Or something in-between...like "The Pacific"

[Destraex]

I need a contiguous story that each episode is still self contained within. I like the traditional TV series format like that. I HATE short stories that do not allow character and story development from epsiode to episode. Band of Brothers was good like that. Pacific not so much... pacific suffered from disjointed character development that slid everywhere and dealt with a lot of the more boring parts of the campaign. Like convalescence and shore leave.

[Windigo]

Happy to see this.  My grandfather flew a B-17 in the great World War Two.

I had a few teachers that flew for the RCAF. Only one saw combat, but it was pretty kooshy, daytime stuff in mid-late 1944. I can't recall whether it was Lancasters or Halifaxs.
Great Uncle was a rear echelon refurbisher wonk. Rifles, trenching tools, etc..

[Destraex]

A good video on the pacific and why masters of the air took so long to be greenlit

[ArizonaTank]

A new trailer